The first victim of the Grenfell Tower fire has been named as Syrian refugee Mohammed al-Haj Ali, from Daraa, Syria, whom grieving friends say "came here (the UK) for a better life" but the UK "failed him". “He survived Assad, the war in Syria, only to die in a tower block in London. There are no words,” Abdulaziz Almashi, a friend of the family and co-founder of the UK-based Syrian Solidarity Campaign said.